Private and Social Levels of Pesticide Overuse in Rapidly Intensifying Upland Agriculture in Thailand

Christian Grovermann, Pepijn Schreinemachers and Thomas Berger

No 126341, 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: This study quantifies private and social levels of agricultural pesticide overuse by combining an abatement function approach to estimate the marginal benefits of pesticide use with the Pesticide Environmental Accounting (PEA) tool to estimate marginal social costs. We applied the method to one intensive vegetable production system in the mountainous north of Thailand by using farm and plot level survey data. We find that the exponential specification for the abatement effect of pesticides gives more realistic outcomes than the logistic specification. Based on an exponential specification, we estimate that private overuse is 78-79% of the applied quantify of pesticides, while social overuse is 79-80%. The difference between private and social overuse is small as the exponential form reaches an optimum at a relatively low level of pesticide use.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.126341

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